On today’s show, chefs Joan Nathan and Michael Lomanaco answer your “burning” questions about how to avoid a dry turkey and other Thanksgiving cooking disasters. Also, the story of how one woman figured out how to measure the universe in the early 1900s. And Caryl Phillips' novel about the African-American Vaudeville star Bert Williams. Plus, one of the world's leading experts on autism will be here.
Turkey 101
Thanksgiving is just three days away! Should you brine your turkey? Is canned pumpkin as good as the real thing? Cookbook author Joan Nathan (author of The New American Cooking and Jewish Cooking in America) and chef Michael Lomonaco tell us how to avoid some of the worst cooking disasters. ...
Miss Leavitt’s Stars
At the turn of the century, Radcliffe grad Henrietta Swan Leavitt worked as a number cruncher in the Harvard Observatory. In Miss Leavitt’s Stars, George Johnson reveals the little-known story of how she figured out a way to measure the universe while she was there.
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Dancing in the Dark
Caryl Phillips, author of A Distant Shore, discusses his latest book: Dancing in the Dark. It’s a fictionalized account of the life of Vaudeville star Bert Williams, one of the biggest African-American celebrities in the early 1900s.
» Bert Williams CD collection
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» Bert Williams CD collection
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The Autism Sourcebook
Karen Siff Exkorn is one of the world’s leading autism excerpts. She became so after her son Jake was diagnosed with the disorder. In her new book, The Autism Sourcebook, she shares her knowledge about everything from dealing with the diagnosis, to treating autism.
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Music: Music from the ...
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